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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, "What Would You Do If You Were President?".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is this letter from Louis Sears to Dexter Peterson confidential and personal?
(a) Sears is not allowed to send regular correspondence
(b) Sears and Peterson are long time friends and trust one another
(c) Sears is passing government secrets
(d) Dexter would not read the letter otherwise

2. Why did the rumor persist?
(a) The American embassy did not deny it
(b) The President of the USA said it
(c) It was on CNN all day long
(d) Someone overheard an official repeat the rumor

3. Who proposed a solution to the problem?
(a) Gilbert MacWhite
(b) Joe Bing
(c) An American editor
(d) Marie MacIntosh

4. During what season did the incident of the Royal Sarkhanese Air Base happen?
(a) Dry season
(b) Christmas
(c) Chinese New Year
(d) Wet season

5. What was the name of the newspaper they created to confuse the communists and tell the truth to the Burmese people?
(a) The American Farmer
(b) The Communist Farmer
(c) The Onion
(d) Mother Earth News

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does he have this nickname?

2. What does Sears do before he leaves his post?

3. What does Hillandale do when he reaches the northern province?

4. What statement did the Ambassador give to the editors?

5. Why have many Burmese become communists?

(see the answer key)

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